Bottom, Young Ones, or Filthy Rich And Catflap

"No, not together! On our own."

Also, when they are discussing what to do with the body: -

Eddie: Hey! I've just had a idea. Why don't we stick him on a bus?
Richie: Yeah! No, no good, the conductor would notice when he didn't pay his fare.
Eddie: No no, why don't we stick him ON a bus?
Richie: Because the conductor would notice when he didn't pay his fare!
Eddie: I mean on the roof!
Richie: Ooohhhh! You don't get conductors on the roof!
 
the young ones is very funny but watching it now it's wierd & hasn't aged well.

Filthy rich & catflap is great but they only made 1 series,it's ok,sort of an early glimse of bottom.

Bottom makes me laugh everytime i watch it no matter how many times i see it.

For me bottom is the pick of the bunch
 
Bottom is a classic. At its peak it deserves that status just as much as more mainstream stuff like Fawlty and Dell boy.
Is there anybody who doesn't remember Eddie trying to remove Richie's nasal hair with pliers?
 
About 10 years ago I would have said The Young Ones, but nowadays I'd be more inclined to say Bottom

Filthy, Rich and Catflap is more of a cult viewing. Personally, I love it.
 
I love this one from Carnival

Richie: You dropped it!

Eddie: Yeah, well I was being run over by the Riot Squad!

Richie: Well, two wrongs don't make a right, young man. Just because you're
being run over doesn't mean you have to smash a television set!
I could have been watching Sophie Grigson peeling a banana or washing
a cucumber or anything!

Eddie: She's married.

Richie: I know, to the wrong bloke.

Eddie: Still, at least we got the duck.

Richie: The duck?

Eddie: Yeah! It's made out of plastic!

Richie: Eddie, what, in the name of Greek Buggery, is the use of a plastic
duck?

Eddie: It floats in the bath. Hello!

Richie: But why?

Eddie: It's hollow!

Richie: No... Why the duck?

Eddie: It came free with the telly.

Richie: Eddie, everything came free with the telly, we were looting!
Why didn't you get a free telly with the telly?!

Eddie: Well it'd sink in the bath!
 
Ahhh an impossible question :)

Each show had so many good points. If you went on the number of times i've watched each series, Bottom would win.

But I like them all equally really.
 
lol. CLEARLY no sense of humour.

Bottom for me. It was if they'd refined their comedy from the other 2.

Another vote for Gasman.

"How do you keep warm?"
"We...we make love"
 
Like Filthy's intro in F,R&C. He and Richie just stand
there greeting each other for a minute or so, obviously so the viewer will know Nigel Planer is Ralph Filthy:D. Think Planer's best line in the whole series was 'I remember when Cheggers and Mike Read got drunk one night and attacked a nun' or something like that:D
 
not forgetting the Young Ones Grange Hill spoof('we're the only kiRAB that don't say F')-. So true:). Main thing all 3 have i n common, apart from Rik and Ade is they havent been repeated on the BBC for a while theyre probably embarrassed of the shows now
 
Bottom had me nearly dying of laughing too much as a kid, it just has the perfect balance of both slapstick and clever humour. When they would fight I'd laugh just as much as the witty one-liners. I like The Young Ones but it just isn't anywhere near as witty.

"Eddie..How you holding up?"

"It's hard to tell.. This peek-a-boo bra is cutting off the circulation to my head!"
 
You've just reminded me thanks. Need to set the recorder for Dave tonight 9.40pm - 01.50am. Saw the stage show in Sheffield in the late 80's or 90's.
 
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